Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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